The Santiago Center was officially launched in March 2012. It has mainly focused on organizing public programs featuring Columbia faculty, researchers, and students and covering themes that are in the frontline of the global and local public policy agenda. It has established extensive partnerships with Chilean academic community, government institutions, businesses, and NGOs to co-sponsor public programs and to develop relationships with local scholars and scientists in order to engage in joint-research projects.
The Center is engaged in recruitment efforts to inform Chilean students and professionals about the degrees and courses offered by Columbia in New York. It also helps in searching for research and internship opportunities in Chile for Columbia undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.
The Center occupies a 400-square-foot, two-suite office on the first floor of the Flacso building in the Vitacura neighborhood of Santiago, adjacent to the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the office of the International Labor Organization. .
WHAT'S HAPPENING
UPCOMING EVENTS
Series to commemorate the one hundred years of the Russian Revolution
NEWS
Poetry event: Anna Akhamtova, the Tragic Spirit of the Twentieth-Century Russia
In mid-October, Wellesley College’s professor Marjorie Agosin – also a poet, human rights activist, and literary critic—spoke about Akhmatova´s life and work in the context of the series the commemorate the one hundred years of the Russian Revolution jointly organized by the Santiago Center and local universities Católica de Valparaíso, Católica de Chile and Universidad de Chile.
Undergraduate Engineering Students in Chile
Three undergraduate Columbia Engineering students --Temitope Akinade, Sofía Barbosa, and Lance Avery Murphy—participated in an "International Seminar for Engineering Leaders" (ISEL), held in Santiago in late September.
Universidad Católica Ph.D Student to Intern at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rodrigo Soteres, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at Chile’s Universidad Católica, will spend three months at Columbia University’ s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) working with scientists Mike Kaplan and Joerg Schaefer.